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Home >> Visual C++ / C++ >> Controls >> ListView Control

ListView Control

Advanced


[Updated] MFC Extension Classes CListCtrlEx and CListViewEx
Rating:
Thomas Holte - 01/18/2008
Learn about augmented versions of CListCtrl and CListView with sort direction indicators, coloring of the sort column, column hiding, and more.

Windows Forms: Creating an SDI ListView and Control Panel UI
Rating:
Tom Archer - MSFT - 12/13/2004
Tom Archer illustrates how easy Visual Studio .NET and Windows Forms make creating interfaces that once required manual coding.

MFC Virtual List Control
Rating:
Andrew Small - 04/10/2001
Removes the mystery of associating list views (controls) with large amounts of data

Copying/Moving Rows in CListCtrl
Rating:
James Spibey - 06/19/1999
Copying/Moving Rows in CListCtrl

Owner drawn control
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Owner drawn control

Changing row height in owner drawn control
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Changing row height in owner drawn control

Serializable CListCtrl with check sum verify
Rating: none
Mihai Filimon - 08/06/1998
Serializable CListCtrl with check sum verify


Background color and image


[Updated] ListView Loading Images BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WMF, ICO, and EMF Files Natively (pure WINAPI)
Rating:
Ali Imran - 08/03/2009
Learn about the possibilites and extra functionality that a simple ListView provides for loading images, either from an external image file, an Internet URL, application resources, and from external EXE, DLL, OCS, or CPL files.

How to Skin CListCtrl, Including Scrollbars and Column Headers
Rating:
Greg Ellis - 08/15/2003
Learn how to skin a CListCtrl, including the CHeaderCtrl and the scrollbars. You will be able to totally customize the look and feel of almost all the aspects of a CListCtrl. (The article, demo program, and figures were updated.)

Setting the Background Image for a List Control
Rating:
Mahesh Kumar S - 05/06/2003
A simple article on how to place a background image in a list control.

Changing the Background Color of Individual Listview Columns
Rating:
Hari Krishnan - 08/23/2002
Learn how to change the background color of individual columns in a list view.

Change the background color of individual columns
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Change the background color of individual columns

Use a bitmap as a background image
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Use a bitmap as a background image

Change background color
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Change background color

Change background color of individual rows
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Change background color of individual rows


Checkboxes


Add checkboxes
Rating:
Eran Yariv - 02/01/1999
Add checkboxes

To make check boxes act like radio buttons (mutually exclusive)
Rating: none
Praveen S. Kumar - 02/01/1999
To make check boxes act like radio buttons (mutually exclusive)


Columns


How to Easily Navigate and Edit a List View Control
Rating:
Dr. Sai - 01/05/2004
Learn how to navigate through the controls the way one navigates in an Excel sheet.

Retrieving the column caption
Rating: none
Thomas Blenkers - 07/25/1999
Retrieving the column caption

Ensure (partial) visibility of a column
Rating:
Daniel Frey - 09/03/1998
Ensure (partial) visibility of a column

How to set a minimum column width
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
How to set a minimum column width

Autosize a column to fit its content
Rating:
Roger Onslow - 08/06/1998
Autosize a column to fit its content

The Header Control
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
The Header Control

Determining right click on the header control
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Determining right click on the header control

Disable clicking on selected report view columns
Rating: none
Petr Novotny - 08/06/1998
Disable clicking on selected report view columns

Getting the number of columns in the report view
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Getting the number of columns in the report view

Detecting column index of the item clicked
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Detecting column index of the item clicked

Prevent column resizing (2)
Rating: none
Charles Herman - 08/06/1998
Prevent column resizing (2)

Prevent column resizing
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Prevent column resizing

Adding a column
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Adding a column


Custom Drawing


Custom Draw ListView Controls, Part I
Rating:
Roger Onslow - 04/13/2001
In this first part of a two-part series programming owner-drawn controls, Roger Onslow introduces the concepts and techniques behind writing your own controls.

Custom Draw ListView Controls, Part II
Rating:
Roger Onslow - 04/13/2001
Roger walks you through the creation of a class that eases the burden on the working class programmer when it comes to custom draw controls.


Data


[Updated] Spying a File System
Rating:
Vitali Halershtein - 04/29/2004
How to create the basis for a file system spy application.

One-To-Many Relationship Between Two List Controls
Rating: none
Alexander Khudyakov - 10/14/2003
Discover an example of data structures for the realization of constructing a one-to-many relationship between two data structures.

The CTableView class - CListView-based grid for really huge datasets
Rating: none
Max Kazanowsky - 11/26/2001
The CTableView class - CListView-based grid for really huge datasets

Virtualizing List Views to Handle Large Amounts of Data
Rating:
Scott Driscoll - 02/16/2001
Shows how to use the LVS_OWNERDATA style to control the display of extremely large data sets


Deleting


Deleting a Multiple Selection of Rows in a Listview Control
Rating: none
Daniel Bartsch - 03/03/2003
Learn how to delete more than one row/item of a listview control in reported mode at once.


Drag & Drop


Overcome Window Flicker While Dragging
Rating: none
Jehhry23 - 06/17/2009
Overcomes owner window flicker when implementing dragging functionility.

A Drag and Drop List Control
Rating:
astanley - 03/15/2004
Discover a new implementation of a drag and drop in a list and tree control.

Insert and Replace in a List Control
Rating:
Douglas Fraser - 06/25/2003
Build a listview control that can be used to highlight a row in two different colors'—one for inserting and one for replacing data depending on the position of the cursor.

List Control with OLE Drag '& Drop
Rating:
Jean Claude Dauphin - 11/09/2000
This extended list control allow OLE drag and drop between multiple list controls

CreateDragImage for (Unlimited) Multiply Selected Items
Rating: none
Hao ( David ) TRAN - 05/01/2000
Includes great Dual-ListCtrl Selection Manager Demo!

Drag '& Drop CListCtrl-derived Class
Rating: none
Stuart Carter - 02/02/2000
Enhanced CListCtrl control that accepts drag '& drop of files

CreateDragImage for multiple selected items in CListCtrl
Rating:
Frank Kobs - 12/21/1999
CreateDragImage for multiple selected items in CListCtrl

Alternative CreateDragImage() to drag a complete row
10/19/1998
Alternative CreateDragImage() to drag a complete row

Dragging columns to rearrange column sequence
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Dragging columns to rearrange column sequence

Dragging Items to Rearrange Rows
Rating:
Wayne Berthin - 08/06/1998
Dragging Items to Rearrange Rows


Editing items and subitem


Simplified Subitem Editing
Rating:
Gunnar Andre Dalsnes - 01/03/2003
A way to subclass the listview edit control.

Easy Navigation Through an Editable List View
Rating: none
Lee Nowotny - 06/19/1999
Easy Navigation Through an Editable List View

Editing listview subitems using LVM_GETEDITCONTROL
Rating:
Reg Anderson - 11/21/1998
Editing listview subitems using LVM_GETEDITCONTROL

Allowing items to be edited
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Allowing items to be edited

Editable subitems
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Editable subitems

Using a drop down list to change a subitem
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Using a drop down list to change a subitem

Editing item programmatically
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Editing item programmatically

Multiline Editable Subitems
Rating:
Rex Myer - 08/06/1998
Multiline Editable Subitems


FilterBar


Example of the new ListView FilterBar feature (IE5)
Rating: none
James R. Twine - 08/03/1999
Example of the new ListView FilterBar feature (IE5)


Grid lines


List control with single / double separator lines
10/05/1998
List control with single / double separator lines

Drawing horizontal and vertical gridlines
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Drawing horizontal and vertical gridlines

Vertical lines for column borders
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Vertical lines for column borders

Fix resizing problem in above article
Rating: none
Serge Wautier - 08/06/1998
Fix resizing problem in above article


Header Control


Multiline Header Control Inside a CListCtrl
Rating: none
Alberto Gattegno and Alon Peleg - 05/18/2000
If you've ever had listviews where some of the column headings would display better on multiple lines, this article is for you!

Handling right-click on the CListCtrl header control
Rating: none
Alberto Gattegno - 04/03/2000
An alternative to determining the right click on the header of the CListCtrl

Outlook 98-Style FlatHeader Control
Rating:
Maarten Hoeben - 01/13/2000
Outlook 98-Style FlatHeader Control

Contiuously updating sizing header
Rating: none
Alger Pike - 02/23/1999
Contiuously updating sizing header

Autofit Header Control
Rating: none
Baldvin Hansson - 02/23/1999
Autofit Header Control

Catching header messages in a CListView
Rating:
Justin Mitchell - 11/21/1998
Catching header messages in a CListView

OLE Controls: Subclassing the List View Control using MFC
09/23/1998
Repainting header and border of ActiveX listview


Introduction


How do I use a derived CListCtrl with a CListView?
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 10/01/2002
How do I use a derived CListCtrl with a CListView?

Using text callbacks
Rating:
Chris Maunder - 08/11/1998
Using text callbacks

Using derived CListCtrl in CListView - Undocumented
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Using derived CListCtrl in CListView - Undocumented


ListView Control


Creating a CListCtrl Class with Item Style Features (CListCtrlStyled Class)
Rating:
Sébastien ANDRE - 08/06/2002
Create a class that uses "Custom Draw" capabilities for the drawing the CListCtrl. No owner-draw control is needed.

Synchronization of scrolling of two list controls
Rating:
Alexander Khudyakov - 06/10/2002
Shows the synchronization of scrolling of two list controls.

Report Control - An Outlook 2000-Style SuperGrid Control
Rating:
Maarten Hoeben - 06/26/2001
This is an update (over 30 changes) of Maarten's ReportCtrl control. This is an Outlook 98/2000 style SuperGrid control.

Embed Progress Bars in a List Control
Rating:
Scott Guillaudeu - 06/14/2001
This control can be used for displaying the progress of multiple events simultaneously. Each line in a list control can have its own progress bar. Progress bars operate independently and (can be) simultaneously.

Displaying an Empty ListView Message
Rating: none
Mauro Ghini - 01/05/2000
Displays message so that user knows ListView is intentionally empty

Personalizing highlight colors through custom draw
Rating: none
Damian Smith - 12/20/1999
Personalizing highlight colors through custom draw

Custom Draw items inside a ListView Control
Rating:
Navi Singh - 06/19/1999
Custom Draw items inside a ListView Control


Miscellaneous


Accessing the Address Book Data Using MAPI
Rating:
muthuis - 10/28/2004
Learn the different ways of accessing the address book data using Extended MAPI. It explains how to work with both smaller and larger address books in a Global Address List of an organization.

SuperGrid: Yet Another ListView Control
Rating:
Allan Nielsen - 01/13/2000
SuperGrid: Yet Another ListView Control

MeasureItem for dynamic font changing in a list control
Rating: none
Peter Ierardi - 10/11/1998
MeasureItem for dynamic font changing in a list control

Stopping flicker during updates
Rating:
Roger Onslow - 08/06/1998
Stopping flicker during updates

IE4 Extended Styles in a List Control
Rating:
Garth Tolmie - 08/06/1998
IE4 Extended Styles in a List Control

CSortedListCtrl reusable base class
Rating: none
Staffe Christian - 08/06/1998
CSortedListCtrl reusable base class

Using sub-stings in non report view
Rating: none
Carsten Witte - 08/06/1998
Using sub-stings in non report view

Full row selection and title tips
Rating: none
Matthew Bells - 08/06/1998
Full row selection and title tips

Printing the control
Rating:
Philippe Carret - 08/06/1998
Printing the control

Class with full row highlighting, dragable headers, sorting
Rating: none
James Schubert - 08/06/1998
Class with full row highlighting, dragable headers, sorting


Navigation


Navigating through CListCtrl's rows with the arrow and tab keys
Rating:
Michael Stradley - 04/24/1999
Navigating through CListCtrl's rows with the arrow and tab keys


New ListView control (IE 4.0)


Class for using new features in listview control
Rating: none
Rui Santos - 08/06/1998
Class for using new features in listview control


Printing


How to Determine Whether a Printer Supports Color
Rating:
Mike Harnad - 03/25/2004
Learn how to determine whether a printer supports color printing.

CPrintListCtrl Class
Rating:
Mike Marquet - 09/27/2001
CListCtrl-derived class that prints (without MFC support) - Updated to fix bugs and more.

Print the contents of the list control
Rating: none
Ravi Reddy - 02/02/1999
Print the contents of the list control

Plug-in class to support printing from a listview
Rating: none
Gregory Goeppel - 02/02/1999
Class that supports black '& white printing from a listview (in "report view mode")


Property Lists


Completely Customizable Properties Window
Rating: none
Brett R. Mitchell - 11/24/2000
Properties window with combo boxes that communicates with owner when properties are changed

An Adaptable Property List Control
Rating:
Stefan Belopotocan - 06/23/2000
Very nice list control for displaying VB-like properties dialog

Creating an Object Property List using the CListCtrl
Rating: none
Marlon Tang - 02/05/1999
Creating an Object Property List using the CListCtrl


Reports


[Updated] Resources Explorer
Rating:
Georges Dumond - 09/07/2006
Learn about a search files with resources to explore it. The selected resource can be extracted. This tool is a sample of using Splitter, List, Tree, and resource display.

Customized Report List Control with In-Place Combo Box '& Edit Control
Rating:
Aravindan Premkumar - 01/07/2004
Learn how to implement a customized report list control with in-place combo box and edit control by using the reusable classes.


Scrollbars


Hide Scrollbars from a CListCtrl
Rating:
Lars Werner - 06/30/2003
Removes the scrollbars from a CListCtrl without losing the ability to scroll.


Selection


Select Multiple Items Functionally Without Pressing the CTRL or SHIFT Key in a List View Control
Rating: none
Jung Minki - 12/06/2005
Learn how to select multiple items without pressing the CTRL or SHIFT key on a touchscreen app or Windows CE app.

Retrieving selected items
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Retrieving selected items

Grid List Control
Rating: none
Rex Myer - 08/06/1998
Grid List Control

Set focus on a cell
Rating: none
Shilpa Shamapant - 08/06/1998
Set focus on a cell

Select an item even if click is not on left most column
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Select an item even if click is not on left most column

Selection highlighting of entire row
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Selection highlighting of entire row

Selecting and deselecting a range of rows
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Selecting and deselecting a range of rows

Select item programmatically
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Select item programmatically


Sorting


[Updated] A Very Useful Class to Display SQL SELECT Results
Rating:
Vitali Halershtein - 09/13/2004
Display the results of a SQL SELECT operation. Many grid controls are available for VC++ developers, but this control is small yet contains many features for developers and end users.

Quick Sort Algorithm Comparing Any Data Type
Rating: none
David Flores - 07/31/1999
Quick Sort Algorithm Comparing Any Data Type

Rearranging List Control Rows through Drag and Drop (including demos!)
Rating: none
Tom Hill - 03/23/1999
Rearranging List Control Rows through Drag and Drop (including demos!)

Sorting list on Numeric Column
Rating: none
Todd D. Degani - 08/06/1998
Sorting list on Numeric Column

Sort columns by the image index of the column
Rating: none
Mark Findlay - 08/06/1998
Sort columns by the image index of the column

Sorting list based on integers in any column
Rating:
Eric Vella - 08/06/1998
Sorting list based on integers in any column

Sorting the list based on text in any column
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Sorting the list based on text in any column

Determining row indices in Sorting Comparison function
Rating:
Kamalahasan Rajaram - 08/06/1998
Determining row indices in Sorting Comparison function

Indicating sort order in header control
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Indicating sort order in header control

A Multi Column Sort listview
Rating: none
Craig Lucas - 08/06/1998
A Multi Column Sort listview

Sorting the list when user clicks on column header
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Sorting the list when user clicks on column header

Automatically resorting after an edit
Rating:
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Automatically resorting after an edit

Sort list (numeric/text/float/date) using callback
Rating:
Max Poliashenko - 08/06/1998
Sort list (numeric/text/float/date) using callback

Sort list (numeric/text) using callback
Rating: none
Iuri Apollonio - 08/06/1998
Sort list (numeric/text) using callback

Sort list based on text/numeric/date-time in any column
Rating:
Tal J. Rosen - 08/06/1998
Sort list based on text/numeric/date-time in any column


Tooltip & Titletip


Adding Multiline Balloon ToolTips to ListView Column Headers
Rating:
10Tec Company - 04/07/2003
Learn now to add multiline balloon ToolTips to ListView column headers.

List control multiline tooltip(DataTip)
Rating:
JeongHwan Cho - 08/01/2001
This article show you a [large] data tip for a list control plus a sophisticated header tool tip.

List Control with Tooltips
Rating: none
Kory Becker - 01/24/2001
CListCtrl-derived class that displays tooltips for list items regardless of listview style: List, Report and Icon

Enhanced Title Tip Handling
Rating: none
Leonid Prokopovich - 06/19/1999
Enhanced Title Tip Handling

Handling Title Tips With Drag/Drop Headers Using The Visual C++ 6.0 CListCtrl
Rating: none
Kevin Delgado - 09/02/1998
Handling Title Tips With Drag/Drop Headers Using The Visual C++ 6.0 CListCtrl

Tooltip for individual cells
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Tooltip for individual cells

Tooltip for individual column header
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Tooltip for individual column header

Tooltip for the header
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Tooltip for the header

Titletip for individual cells
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Titletip for individual cells


Using images


Using Thumbnail Images in a List Control
Rating:
Yi Ren - 02/11/2001
Demo application that illustrates using thumbnail images in a list control

List Control displaying image thumbnails
Rating:
Stefan Ungureanu - 02/02/1999
List Control displaying image thumbnails

Initializing the image list
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Initializing the image list

Late binding of image - I_IMAGECALLBACK
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Late binding of image - I_IMAGECALLBACK

Setting or removing an image for an item
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Setting or removing an image for an item

Attaching a system imagelist to a list control
Rating: none
Matt Esterly - 08/06/1998
Attaching a system imagelist to a list control

Using an imagelist with the header control
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Using an imagelist with the header control

Setting a non-standard size image
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Setting a non-standard size image

Displaying an image in the header
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Displaying an image in the header


Views


Switching Views
Rating: none
Zafir Anjum - 08/06/1998
Switching Views

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